If I had it all to do over again, I would not do it any other way. I am sure spending four consecutive years here has its upsides, but those two rejection letters changed my life in positive ways I could never have imagined at the time. A teacher whom I trust recently suggested that many of us probably find at graduation that we feel we know less than we felt we did on first arrival at Harvard. But I also have a great deal more faith that things will work out. I feel better prepared to enjoy and succeed in what I do after college, even if I am less sure of what it will be.
Now if only I could get in off the wait list to Harvard Law School.
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Michael L. Shenkman ’01, a history concentrator in Winthrop House, is a Crimson editor.